THE ONENEURO INITIATIVE’S VISION IS TO BRING THE EXPANSIVE NEUROSCIENCE COMMUNITY AT JOHNS HOPKINS TOGETHER TO PROMOTE INTERACTION AND COLLABORATION AND TO CREATE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THE BRAIN AND MIND IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
The ambitious goal of the OneNeuro Initiative is nothing short of a complete understanding of the brain – the full arc – from molecules to the mind.
Deciphering the workings of the brain, from molecules to mind, will require unprecedented collaboration between disciplines, from neuroscience, engineering, computer science, neurology, psychiatry, cognitive and psychological science, and philosophy.
Johns Hopkins University has an extensive neuroscience community that spans schools and departments and encompasses all of the disciplines required to accomplish this goal. Over a thousand faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students participate in neuroscience-related research at the molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral, computational, and clinical levels. The OneNeuro Initiative will work closely with the Johns Hopkins Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Initiative and with the newly formed Data Science and AI Institute, which is recruiting 110 new faculty, including faculty who use AI to study the brain and mind.
Dr. Richard Huganir is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University with appointments in the Department of Neuroscience in the School of Medicine and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is the Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience. Dr. Huganir received his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University in 1982 where he performed his thesis research in the laboratory of Dr. Efraim Racker. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the Nobel Laureate, Dr. Paul Greengard, at Yale University School of Medicine from 1982-1984. Dr. Huganir moved to Rockefeller University as an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology from 1984-1988. Dr. Huganir moved to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1988 as an Associate Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience. Dr. Huganir became the Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience in 2006. Dr. Huganir’s career has focused on synapses, the connections between nerve cells in the brain. Dr. Huganir’s studies have shown that the regulation of neurotransmitter receptor function is a major mechanism for regulating neuronal excitability and connectivity in the brain and is critical for many higher brain processes, including learning and memory, and is a major determinant of behavior. Moreover, dysregulation of these mechanisms underlies many neurological and psychiatric diseases, including Alzheimer’s, ALS, schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability, PTSD, as well as chronic pain and drug addiction. Dr. Huganir served as the President and Treasurer of the Society for Neuroscience. He has received the Young Investigator Award, the Julius Axelrod Award, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience, the Goldman-Rakic Award, and the Edward M. Scolnick Prize. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Patricia Janak is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Neuroscience in the School of Medicine. Dr. Janak earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health. From 1999 to 2014, Dr. Janak was faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was the Howard J. Weinberger, M.D., Endowed Chair in Addiction Research at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Janak moved to Johns Hopkins in 2014. Dr. Janak studies neural processes of reward learning, both under normal conditions and in animal models relevant to substance use disorders. Janak and her laboratory members have made critical discoveries regarding the neurochemical and neuroanatomical bases of alcohol intake and relapse. Current work focuses on circuit level analysis of striatal systems and dopamine error signals during learning and decision making. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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